Michael Schiavo, who had said he promised his wife he would not keep her alive artificially and waged a long legal battle to remove her feeding tube, also listed Feb. 25, 1990, as the date she "Departed this Earth." That was the day she collapsed and fell into what most doctors said was an irreversible vegetative state.

She actually died last March 31, nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed by court order.

David Gibbs, an attorney for the woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, said inscribing the marker that way was a nasty political statement by Michael Schiavo, who held the service and burial Monday before telling her family.

After earlier announcing plans to bury his wife's ashes in their native Pennsylvania, Michael Schiavo instead interred them at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater, near Tampa, his attorney, George Felos, said in a short news release Monday.

The severely brain damaged woman died after a bitter, internationally watched fight between her husband and parents over whether she should be kept alive with artificial feedings. The seven-year conflict engulfed the courts, Congress, the White House and divided the country.

She was cremated two days after her death and Michael Schiavo was given possession of her ashes.

Felos did not say in the statement why Michael Schiavo decided to keep his wife's remains in Florida. He did not return a phone call seeking additional information.

"We're hopeful that there was some effort here to show some kindness" to the Schindlers, Gibbs said of the decision to bury her in Florida.

A service at the cemetery was officiated by a priest, the statement said. Michael Schiavo and at least one his brothers attended.

"Mrs. Schiavo's parents, as ordered by the court, have been advised of the exact location of Mrs. Schiavo's site," Felos' statement said.

Gibbs said Felos notified his office via fax later Monday afternoon, after the service. The Schindlers had already starting getting calls from reporters about it when his office called to tell them, Gibbs said.

"We were not notified (in advance) in any respect of any service or any memorial, and clearly that's sad for the family," Gibbs said.

A pond and fountain also mark the woman's grave site, which was festooned with flowers Monday evening. The flat bronze marker lists Terri Schiavo's birthdate, Dec. 3, 1963 and says she "departed this earth" on Feb. 25, 1990, and was "at peace" on March 31, 2005.

Inscribed at the bottom is, "I kept my promise."

The interment comes less than a week after an autopsy report was released revealing that Terri Schiavo was almost certainly in a persistent vegetative state, as most doctors had determined, and that her body showed no signs of abuse by her husband, which had been alleged by her family. The cause of the 1990 collapse that left her with severe brain damage was not determined.

The report prompted Gov. Jeb Bush to ask the Pinellas County chief prosecutor to investigate what happened the night Terri Schiavo collapsed. The governor cited an alleged gap in time between when her husband found her unconscious and called 911. The husband says there was no delay in making the call.

Terri Schiavo died 13 days after the feeding tube keeping her alive was removed by a court order won by her husband.

Her husband convinced a state circuit judge that his wife -- who left no written directive -- had made statements that she would not want to be kept alive artificially with no hope of recovery.

Her parents doubt she had any such end-of-life wishes, however, and believed she could get better. Even after the autopsy results showed that their daughter's brain had shrunk and that all the evidence affirmed previous diagnoses of persistent vegetative state, the Schindlers said they still believe she had some consciousness and reacted to them when they came to visit at the Pinellas Park hospice where she died.

Repeated calls to the cell phones of her father and her brother, Bobby Schindler, were not immediately returned Monday.

Services for Terri Schiavo already had been conducted in nearby Gulfport, where her parents live, and in Pennsylvania.